Category: Star Vs. The Forces of Evil

Can a little girl become the savior of the whole world? Can she fight the hordes of enemies and supervillains controlling them? Turns out she can! Especially when this little girl is the protagonist of well-known animation series. Yes, the TV show is Star vs. the Forces of Evil. Recent years have shown a large number of cartoons that became popular worldwide. The same counts for this one as well. It was released not long ago, in 2015. Worth noting that Daron Nefcy, the show’s creator, is the first ever woman to create animated series for the Disney XD channel. That, and the fact that the show hit top spots on many ratings make it a very big achievement for Nefcy.

The little girl that is the protagonist of the series is called Star Butterfly. Despite living and protecting the Earth, she was born in another dimension, called Mewni. The first thing that comes to mind when seeing the princess is clumsiness. She can ruin literally everything even while having the best intentions at heart. She caused a lot of trouble back in Mewni when she was a little child. Aging, however, did not help that at all as she became even more clumsy on some occasions. After princess gets 14 years old, she is sent to Earth to live with the Diaz family. Change of scenery did not help her at all and she successfully kept on messing things up further. Star has a very good heart though and this is why she is so likable.
The princess does not do everything on her own. Marco Diaz, princess’ peer and a son of the family that keeps an eye on Star becomes her friend. The duo becomes a team of heroes that spend their free time saving the world from random dimensional threats. Marco is not a regular kid, however. He possesses a fairly strong karate skill and is a big fan of Dragon Ball Z, which definitely inspires him to improve his martial arts further.

The two started off as rivals and competitors, but as the show progresses, Marco and Star bond together and become close friends. The show brilliantly portrays how the characters change over time. The princess becomes more organized later, shows signs of maturity and makes more rational decisions. The emotions that are radiated by the series is mostly thanks to the brilliant work of the voice actors, Eden Sher and Adam McArthur in particular, who gave their voices to Star and Marco respectively.

The visuals are relatively comparable with the Gravity Falls series. Cartooney style and bright colors steal the show and look great in the setting. This also adds more space for maneuvers in the magic department, as different spells can now go a bit further with the animation given the overall style of the show. The correlations with Gravity Falls don’t end here because the author of the soundtrack is Brad Breek, the same man who was also working on the music for the aforementioned series.

Adventures, rivalry, friendship, maybe even love! That is what awaits those who decide to spend their time watching a few episodes of the series. Magic, brilliant comedy based on the clumsiness of the protagonist and constant challenges from the villains keep thing fresh. The antagonists love to mess things up as well, by the way. Despite the concept using a formula that was already presented on the animation series level, Star vs. the Forces of Evil looks amazingly captivating and catches the eye (and ear) instantly. A well-rounded series for decent time spending, all spiced with humor that suits the kids and adults at the same time. No wonder it is THAT popular now, right?

The blood soaked black fields under the even more crimson sky, without a sun or a moon to illuminate it, were all that was left of the once beautiful green and luscious scenery with it’s flowers and animals and freshly trimmed grass. The forests towering trees were now nothing more than charred stilts hanging in the distance, some still burning (even parts of the field were burning), the sound of the ember chipping away at the wood (or the grass and other plants) was the only sound present other than faint and slow footsteps from a single figure that’d seemed to have survived the onslaught of swords clashing, arrows whizzing and magic bolting. Continue reading “The Lonely Star” »